convert tar.gz to RPM

[Mark Haney]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

>>>>There was a post on here a few days ago (and I've searched the archives 
>>>>for it and can't find it about the steps needed to convert a tarball to 
>>>>an RPM (or SRPM).  Can someone point me to the archive or get me moving 
>>>>in the right direction?
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>>>The detailed way:
>>>http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html
>>>http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html
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>>I know the detailed way, but the notes I saw were a little more distilled. 
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>I dont know about those.
>But If you're talking about a tool blindly doing the work for you, I
>dont think it would be a good idea to use them...
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NOt so much doing the work for me as starting me off a little further 
down the ladder.


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